Six news stories. No date is given but 1981 is a possible date because that is when the spots for BACCHUS were done.

Broadcast on WUFT-TV.

Originally produced on ¾” u-matic. Reformatted to Betacam SP in 2003 and MPEG2 in 2005.

Tape contents

Segment 1

Title: [Saving gas]

Date: ca. 1981

Reported by: Rosemarie Van Camp

Duration: 00:01:40

File name: NPA0801

With the increase in gas prices two UF professors, Wetsel and Fielding, give advice on ways to save gas.

Segment 2

Title: [Studying hurricanes]

Date: ca. 1981

Reported by: Rosemarie Van Camp

Duration: 00:01:28

File name: NPA0802

Vernon Sparkman (employed by the UF coastal engineering department) and his team studied the effect of Hurricane David. Recording devices were placed for a fifty mile stretch along the coast and then collected after the hurricane so that the data could be analyzed.

Segment 3

Title: [Hal Batey’s Reminiscences of UF]

Date: ca. 1981

Reported by: Rosemarie Van Camp

Duration: 00:01:29

File name: NPA0803

Hal Batey, who sold groceries to the University of Florida in 1906 when the university began, talks about some of his experiences.

Segment 4

Title: [Hal Batey]

Date: ca. 1981

Reported by: Rosemarie Van Camp

Duration: 00:02:45

File name: NPA0804

A longer interview of Hal Batey who mentions that UF was brought to Gainesville in 1906 because the city officials agreed to supply free water. When Batey was mayor of Gainesville in the 1930 the city attempted to get the university to pay. He also mentions the football team of 1924-25 which was known at the “Wreckin Crew” and included players as Crabtree, Coffin, Van Sickel, and Jones.

Segment 5

Title: [Rocky Bleier and BACCHUS]

Date: ca. 1981

Reported by: Rosemarie Van Camp

Duration: 00:01:06

File name: NPA0805

Pittsburgh Stealer player Rocky Bleier spent three days at UF to produce several TV spots about the problems of alcoholism and the work that the BACCHUS organization is doing. Dr. Gerardo Gonzalez also speaks briefly.

Segment 6

Title: [Freshmen’s Problems with English]

Date: ca. 1981

Reported by: Rosemarie Van Camp

Duration: 00:01:37

File name: NPA0806

About twenty-five percent of incoming freshmen to the University of Florida lack basic writing skills. English professor Dan Kelly mentions the reasons for this lack.